Reception

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Dear Parents/Carers

I am looking forward to hearing your children's news and uploads and offering further support and challenges on Tapestry and the website. The ideas below can be accessed daily to help during these times. Please enjoy these challenges and whatever you can do. These are just guidance that may support your time at home together.

During this time if you need to contact me, please feel free to contact me via Tapestry or at an altered email of

CWallace@capel-tonbridge.kent.sch.uk

Enjoy being together. Stay safe and take care.

Best wishes, Mrs WW xx

Scroll down for; latest learning photos, current challenges, previous few day's challenges, lots of useful links, folders with resources in to support the challenge ideas and previous week's photographs ENJOY!

Some of your most recent wonderful home learning during the last week...

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Latest Learning Ideas and Challenges :)

Today's challenges

Phonics - RWI sessions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR2zPh6YahiI_fOxLD_ikMQES-EWj_l_6L8MYTCYYUYMBv-1DePkw5_7--Eset 1,2,3 reading and spelling sessions that are 10 minutes each and available for 24 hours afterwards OR BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and type Phase 2 or phase 3. Look on the website for a list of what is included in each set. Which ones do you prefer?

Music - Can you song the wheels on the bus song? Can you change it to something else? maybe a different mode of transport or to do different things? Can you write your new lyrics down?

Creative - Can you build any London landmarks out of bricks or junk? can you draw and label them? Could you make your own map for this?

PE - how is the Tokyo challenge going? Don't forget to log any exercise you do. Try Andy's worksouts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tmmvz

Have a Fabulous Friday.Love Mrs WW x

Thursday 4th June

Today’s challenges

Phonics - RWI sessions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR2zPh6YahiI_fOxLD_ikMQES-EWj_l_6L8MYTCYYUYMBv-1DePkw5_7--Eset 1,2,3 reading and spelling sessions that are 10 minutes each and available for 24 hours afterwards OR BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and type Phase 2 or phase 3. Look on the website for a list of what is included in each set. Which ones do you prefer?

Maths - Can you make a map for the bus? Does it follow the story or is it on a new adventure? Can you talk about the direction it is taking?

Literacy - Can you label your map? Will have a key to explain the pictures? What about a title?

PE - how is the Tokyo challenge going? Don't forget to log any exercise you do. Try Andy's worksouts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tmmvz

Have a Thankful Thursday.Love Mrs WW x

Wednesday 3rd June

Today’s challenges

Phonics - RWI sessions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR2zPh6YahiI_fOxLD_ikMQES-EWj_l_6L8MYTCYYUYMBv-1DePkw5_7--Eset 1,2,3 reading and spelling sessions that are 10 minutes each and available for 24 hours afterwards OR BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and type Phase 2 or phase 3. Look on the website for a list of what is included in each set. Which ones do you prefer?

Maths and language- Can you give directions for a bus/transport? Can you use left and right? Can you do it blindfolded?

Literacy - Can you write any directions down for the bus or for someone to reach somewhere?

Art - Can you use a toy vehicle to make a picture. Try dipping the wheels in paint and going across paper, maybe on a tray too, so that you can let it free wheel. what colours do you make when you mix the paints this way?

PE - how is the Tokyo challenge going? Don't forget to log any exercise you do. Try Andy's worksouts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tmmvz

Have a wicked Wednesday.Love Mrs WW x

Tuesday 2nd June

Dear Parents and Carers,I hope you enjoyed the story time about the bus yesterday. More bus related activities to come.Take care, best wishes,Mrs WW x

Today’s challenges

Phonics - RWI sessions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR2zPh6YahiI_fOxLD_ikMQES-EWj_l_6L8MYTCYYUYMBv-1DePkw5_7--Eset 1,2,3 reading and spelling sessions that are 10 minutes each and available for 24 hours afterwards OR BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and type Phase 2 or phase 3. Look on the website for a list of what is included in each set. Which ones do you prefer?

Mix up - this will cover language, maths, understanding and creative!Make a bus that has five windows upstairs and faces downstairs, like the attached picture you could print off. Make some little faces or people and cut them out to place in the windows. Can you make up some maths questions to play with this. e.g if 6 get on the bus and then one gets off, how many people are left on the bus? What do you do to work this out? Can yo make up a question for someone else to solve?

PE - how is the Tokyo challenge going? Don't forget to log any exercise you do. Try Andy's worksouts. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06tmmvz

Have a Tangtastic Tuesday.Love Mrs WW x

Monday 1st June

Dear Parents and Carers,Welcome back . I hope you enjoyed the half term break. I found a super book that I wanted to use for all of you, so now is the perfect week for that.I hope you enjoy the story time. You may even pause the video, turn the sound down and read some of it too.Take care, best wishes,Mrs WW x

Today’s challenges

Phonics - RWI sessions https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ?fbclid=IwAR2zPh6YahiI_fOxLD_ikMQES-EWj_l_6L8MYTCYYUYMBv-1DePkw5_7--Eset 1,2,3 reading and spelling sessions that are 10 minutes each and available for 24 hours afterwards OR BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize and type Phase 2 or phase 3. Look on the website for a list of what is included in each set. Which ones do you prefer?

Mrs WW story time - I hope you enjoy the wonderful pictures in this story of 'the very naughty bus'. Take a look on Tapestry.

Literacy and creative - Can you make tickets for a bus. Label them with the company and destination. Decorate them too!

Maths and role play - Set up a bus with your toys and /or family and use 10 x 1p coins. Sell tickets and give change using pennies.

Mindfulness - lie down and look out of an open window or maybe outside. Watch the clouds and listen . What do you hear? Remember what I use to say 'Breath in ,2,3,4 and out 2,3,4' and repeat in your head. How do you feel afterwards?

Have a magnificent Monday.Love Mrs WW x

Useful Links and Ideas :) Useful Links and Ideas :)

Well-being - also in the folder and www.yesfutures.org for daily ideas.

Physical well-being and Team Spirit- Let’s get active and log our activity together! Help your team on their journey to Tokyo! https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo Click on families/Click on Find School > Enter our School Post code (TN12 6RP) and Capel Primary will appear on a dropdown menu > Click SubmitScroll down slightly and click on Log Activity/Select your Class Team ( EDISON RECEPTION CLASS) from the drop down and input your daily activity below using the questions in the green boxes. Remember Teams that get active will be entered into weekly prize draws. Our ID is 31337.Click on Submit at the bottom of the page to submit your daily activity! It’s that simple!

Edison have been looking at reversible and irreversible change. They worked out what reverse meant by turning their jumpers inside out and back again, therefore understanding that it meant we can change them back to what they were. Edison noticed that they could not change the bread dough made back into flour and running water or the toast back into bread. Edison also noticed that it was heat and air that seemed to change things. They spotted a reversible change when they played with paint ice lollies, although this was a lot harder once they had mixed the colours. It was much clearer when Mrs Walton-Wallace was fussy about having ice or water so they had to keep reversing what they made her!

We discovered a beanstalk and a castle in our classroom...

...so we set about writing 'I wonder' statements and learning how to write a question to leave on the stalk. We have also read the story we found at the foot of the beanstalk that goes through our ceiling. We have made a story map of Jack and the beanstalk and sequenced and predicted the story too. Next we rewrote the story with our own ideas. We have been counting, adding and subtracting numbers of beans and ordering magic beans as well as making free standing beanstalks. The castle has allowed us to look at 3D shapes and write invitations to a grand ball.

The beanstalks needed measuring and ordering so we worked out a way to do this and then ordered by height and checked if the numbers we recorded made sense with this.

Billy Goats Gruff

We have been solving problems. We needed to help the Billy Goats gruff build bridges across real water with a hammer, wood and nails, as well as design them on paper and with lego. We also had to get the goats across the numicon number bond bridge and find the troll with our WANTED posters offering a description of the troll and his crimes. We are trying to trick Mrs Farr into thinking there is a real troll prowling around Capel.

Xin nian kuai le/ Gong Hei Fat Choy...Happy New Year

Edison have been celebrating Chinese New Year with Chinese tea parties, a noodle investigation, Chinese numbers, dragon, ribbon and fan dancing, facts files, traditional tales, decorations, building the Great Wall of China and dragon puppets with shape sequencing.

A real dog visits Capel Vets

.Flossie came to visit today. We learned about her care. This included; brushing her teeth and hair, going to the groomers, feeding, training (to sit, stay, high five, lay down, wait for a treat), car safety, exercise and mental health through playing and activities. We also pretended she was poorly and took her to the vets as we listed this in the responsibilities of owning a dog. Lastly we discussed similarities and differences between us and dogs, e.g our feet, teeth, habits, interestsGreat owner ship skills and kindness shown all day!

Guinea pigs arrive at Capel Vets

We had guinea pigs visit today . We learned that they live until they are about 7 years old and eat hay, straw, carrots, dried food and spinach. they love to hide and use newspaper to soak up their wee and poo. they also eat their poo because they reuse the nutrients.They can live outside or inside but must not keep going between the two places.We saw their nails being clipped and filed and you must not cut near the pink bit as it would bleed. These ones came from an animal sanctuary called Raystede. These ones came from an animal sanctuary called Raystede and were a teddy breed called Bow and Yoyo.Tom asked how much they cost and knew that spinach was good for them and walking helped keep their claws down.

The three little pigs need our help...

The wolf wanted us to help him catch the pigs but we decided to write lists of building materials needed for the pigs so we could help them instead. We then thought we ought to build the houses for them and luckily the stormy weather put them to the test for being waterproof and stable. We also decided to write to the wolf and offer some ideas about how to be kind and what he could do instead of eating the pigs for his dinner.

Brick house

Stick house

Straw house.

Three little pig maths ...

We have been adding together and finding the number for the three little pigs. We played it like a board game and were really good at following instructions, taking turns and listening to each other as well as recognising our numbers, counting and adding.

Christmas Production

Starring as the sheep...

An elf visit...

Rainbow the Christmas Elf visited to tell us all the lovely things Father Christmas knew about us. We received a book for our kindenss. later we wrote to her to tell her about our cheeky elf.

An Autumn walk

Perfect for thinking and writing great descriptive words!

Capel Remembers

Diwali lit up our classroom this week.

EYFS celebrated Diwali. We looked at the story of Rama and Sita and how it relates to Diwali. We built temples, designed and made rangoli patterns, looked at differences in clothing worn at celebrations and in different countries that celebrate Diwali. We made our own healthy Diwali dip and chopped up our own fruit to have with it at snack time. We compared different styles of dance and made up our own firework dance. This led us to look at firework safety too.​